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When it was told Saul, he sent other messengers, and they also prophesied. Saul sent messengers again the third time, and they also prophesied.
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God's Persistent Protection
Commentators note that God's intervention was not a one-time event. Saul sent three separate groups of messengers, and each time God supernaturally compelled them to prophesy instead of arresting David. This repeated miracle demonstrates, as Matthew Henry puts it, that 'David was under the special protection of God,' whose power easily overrules the king's will.
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19th Century
Anglican
And they prophesied likewise. — Bishop Wordsworth calls attention here to the fact of “this portion of Scripture, from [R…
17th Century
Reformed Baptist
And when it was told Saul That the messengers he had sent, instead of seizing on David, were prophesying of him, or …
Presbyterian
Michal's stratagem to gain time until David got to a distance was allowable, but her falsehood did not even have the plea of necessity to excuse it…